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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Websites normally use TMS for backgrounds, not WMS. WMS is generally a <b>lot</b> slower than TMS. </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS</a> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>might help with finding a WMS server for OSM data. To make your own WMS server you could either use a program that turns tiles to WMS or renders directly to WMS. There’s a few listed on that wiki page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There are plugins for QGIS that allow you to use a TMS background. There’s an OpenLayers one that comes with a preset for osm.org mapnik. I use it and it works. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You could also point QGIS at an osm2pgsql database although I don’t suggest this if you are looking at a large area or import the entire planet into the database.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Firmin,Mark [Ontario] [mailto:Mark.Firmin@ec.gc.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 20, 2012 10:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-ca] OSM Publicly available WMS server?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello All,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I may have asked this question a while back, but does anyone know of a publicly available open street map web mapping service that I can connect a wms client to? I have seen some really interesting websites that have a OSM underlay and I am assuming this is done using WMS. In the most recent Kubuntu OS, I've seen OSM used as a desktop background that you can interact with (zoom/pan). Amazing.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I am using QGIS to verify some data and I would like to us OSM as an underlay.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mark Firmin</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>